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I've just finished Terry Pratchett's Men at Arms (one of my favourites so far) and have started the first Phryne Fisher novel, Cocaine Blues.
In the first I was disconcerted by Lady Ramkin's butler being called Willikins (I kept reading it as my own LJ name) and in the second delighted to find that someone on my flist wrote the introduction. Very cool!
Oh and I joined LibraryThing (as Vilakins) this week and loaded up most of my books but for all the art and children's ones. So many were bought at second-hand book fairs and shops (books are too expensive to buy new here) that it was very hard if not impossible to find the editions and covers for a lot of them. I'm going to add the library books I read and like because the recommendations feature seems to work well.
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I need a few more sessions up in the loft to get mine on there
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*clicks over to LT tab* Oh, hey, never mind, I see you already commented over there... Yay!
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And if your library is "pitiful" compared to mine, it only indicates that you are sensible and lack my expensive and space-eating addiction, so, hey, count it as a positive thing. :)
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I'm also concerned because there are books I know I have and haven't yet come across. :-P
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But the best of the Discworld books are much more than just comedies and puzzles. I'm not sure if it's in MAA or one of the other City Watch books, where Vimes gets really angry about the death of some poor laundry woman as a side effect of a crime (phgrased vaguely to try to avoid spoilers), and it's heartbreaking and magnificent.
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I thought Carrot was rather stupid (though likeable) in the first Watch book, but that he came into his own in this one: clever behind the honesty, and a creature of the city. I love Vimes inordinately though, and Vetinari too for that matter. I want them to meet up with Granny Weatherwax (but not Death, much as I enjoy his appearances).
Vimes has already shown that side of his nature in this book, spending most of his wages on the families of dead Watch members. I'll be interested in seeing how he does now he's rich, but I know he won't change.
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I adore Vetinari. He's one of my favourite characters of all time ("The Patrician didn't believe in unnecessary cruelty. FOOTNOTE While being bang alongside the idea of necessary cruelty, of course.")
Edited to demonstrate that I can, in fact, spell cruelty.
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Of all the witches, my heart actually belongs to Nanny Ogg ;-)
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I do love Nanny Ogg, Greebo, and even wet Magrat and her Verence. :-)
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I think Soul Music is possibly my least favourite of the Pratchetts. I'm just not that interested in music with rocks in it, so a lot of it fell flat for me. On the other hand, it's been so many years since I read it - and then only once - that perhaps I should dig it out and give it another go.
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I've only just started it, but it's introducing Susan so it can't be too bad. :-)
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Susan leaves me cold, so her presence is not a plus, to my mind!
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I'm a bit worried about saying what I think in another post since people I know obviously know the author. I also wasn't impressed with the writing (or the editing) either; paragraphing was sloppy, and changes of scene not always marked by a break in text which caused confusion at times.
I assume you're Azdak under an alias. :-)
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I also like the books featuring Susan a lot. I think that the Rincewind ones tend to be the least good, even though Discworld began with him. Though good fun, they don't seem to have the same depth of characterisation or intricacy of plotting.
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I agree totally about Rincewind. He's funny (and a bit Vila-like) but the books are a lot lighter and have less punch. The ones with no regular characters can be very good (I enjoyed 'Pyramids', and it introduced the Assassins) but I do like reading about the characters I've come to love.
As for Susan, the last book I read with her in it was 'Mort', so she hasn't yet developed into the Susan Sto Helit people on my flist have mentioned.
[have just started 'Soul Music'] I realise now that I hadn't encountered Susan before. I was thinking of Ysabell. :-P
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I can't believe I took so long to get round to them, but I found those cartoon covers so offensive, I assumed they were full of smutty sexism. I like the elegant new black ones.
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I love Vetinari and all the characters in the City Watch, The Witches and of course Greebo! I also like Death and Susan.
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I got turned off Discworld when someone gave me Mort as an introduction to the series; it bored me (even though I like DEATH as a character, Mort himself didn't keep my interest). But then someone loaned me "Guards! Guards!" and I was... not quite hooked, but I'm certainly intending to read more, every now and then; just the Guards books, that will be enough. Though I've also read the first Tiffany Aching book, and the other two are in my "to read" list.
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I liked 'Mort', but I'd already been introduced to Death and Susan. I'd say give it another go and read the ones with the Witches or the Guards AKA Watch in them; they're wonderful. The Wiki entry (which I've been working from) tells you which group of characters are in each and what the theme is.
Storylines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld#Storylines)
Novels (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld#Novels)
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Thanks for friending me on BookMooch! I was looking at your wishlist and saw Sylvia Engdahl's Children of the Star, and thought you might like to know it's just been released as an ebook: see here (http://www.sylviaengdahl.com/).D'OH! Wrong friend in New Zealand! Sorry!
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I sometimes mistake people because of their icons. :-P
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